The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1887-09-25
THE SHOEMAKER,
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The chief failure OF modern civilization is
not In its system OF land tenure, but In the art
Of shoemaking. = ..t.F.. ..'
| "Ah, but have no trouble with new shoes"
explains the self-complacent egotist, who al
ways has patent for everything. only wear
them few hours each day. And sometimes
take whole month to break in new pair"
Butw does he only wear them few hours
each day3 And why does no need month to
mako his feet comfortable Simply because II
man 10 In any respect q tenderfoot, he must
always keep his new shoes from one week to
thirty days on probation before he will DO quite
| certain that he will not have to throw them
away or give them TO tho poor. Sometimes
they reviyo latent corn. which the old shoes
In their turn had brought to life. and then per-
mitted to lie inactive for few months. Some
times the leather proves TO be too hard and In
flexible. and binds tho foot like wise until tho
bones ache and the muscles become benumb-
cd. There arc men who can hardly pass Q
shoe store without pang, and whose keenest
sense OF human misery IL derived from their
experience with new shoes.
It may be held that the shoemskers are not
altogether to blame for the miseries which
they innict on their fellow creatures. Not
many years since women prided themselves
on having small waists and sought by artif-
cial means to make their figures look like hour
glasses. But the corset makers were not the
parties to be held responsible. The fault was
TO be charged to o perverted artistic sense. to
conviction that an .unnaturally small waist
added to tho feminine, power Of fascination. It
did nothing Of the sort. It only made the
female figure look ridiculous. and such also Ia
the effect OF many Of the fashions which obtain
In shoes on the shape Of the feet. But no mat
ter. II the shoe itself. without any ref
erence to tho purpose for which 1t was fash
Toned. be only an agreeable object to the eye.
there will DO man found to put his foot in It.
And what is the res1lt3 Hard and soft oorns,
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any artist to paint q picture with bare feet;
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population OF Europe or America. he would
s e get RHGe for hs XG.k Il any r.
s' the G na9sery s SAVAGE . ASss s ep
what nature inssnded to create Ta When 1n shs
fashioned as human foot Babies, North Amer
ised men and women have them no 10 more more
muscles. and corns %here toes oasht ' to b.
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taste and offer - covering for the foot that
no customers Aesordlns to the modern %ea e aau
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ural form Of the foot, we should soon learn to
wonder how We ever tolerated any other model.
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in an hour than tho two saints made during
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used BY cobblers and small workmen,. and
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tile msthods even before the Introduction of
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ger sin e. shoes we're made seem almost
hammoring at their lspstones for a Thousand
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boot has not yet quite vanished. scattered r ali
over this city, and every other city, may still
now be called museums for most OF the old
fashioned implements, Of shoemaking, and
eproned and bare armed. still refgns. But the
dignity Of his calling has departed, He can no
longer take the measure Of delicateiy deformed
after week in. the completion Of his contract.
He must connno himself mainly to the recon
completeness in the mean time only during
spare hours. when he may prepare for some
the sometimes unhappy idea Of an entirely
handmade pair OF shoes. A few large shops
also, that produce much Of their work In their
the perpetual avalanche that pours down from
In its track. |
No lndustrial revolution was eyer mora COM